How to Hear Bernhardt

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In his captivating account of Sarah Bernhardt [NYR, May 10], Robert Gottlieb cites Victor Hugo’s tribute to her golden voice but neglects to mention that it can still be heard—via the Internet. In 1902 and 1903, when she was in her late fifties, she performed brief excerpts from plays by Hugo, Racine, and Rostand for a series of seven Edison recordings now owned by the Vincent Voice Library of Michigan State University and accessible at http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/showfindingaid.cfm?findaidid=Bernhardt.